Combination vase and candlestick.



G. A HENGKBL. COMBINATION VASE AND GANDLESTIGK.

APPLICATION FILED MAR. 18, 1914.

1,109,75 1 P en ed Sept. 8, 1914.

THE NORRIS PETERS co. PHOTU-LHHQ. WASHINGTON. u.

GUSTAVE A. HENCKEL, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

COMBINATION vAsE AND oANDL sTICK.

' Application filed March 18, 1914. Serial No. 825,535.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, GUSTAVE A. HENCKEL,

a citizen of the United States of America,

and a resident of New York, in the county of NewYork and State of NewYork, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in CombinationVases and Candlesticks, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements incandlesticks and comprises ahollow body adapted for use as a flower-Vase or the like,

My invention consists in thenovel vase construction herein described,whereby the vase may be used both as a flower vase, or as a candleholder, and may also be used for both purposes simultaneously.

The objects of my invention are to improve vases and candle holders andto provide means whereby the same article may be used for both purposes,and, if desired, may be used for both purposes simultaneously; also toprovide a vase, adaptable for use also as a candle holder, which iscapable of hold-- ing a candle or the like firmly, without interferingwith its use as a flower holder, and which gives, externally, noindication of its adaptability for use as a candle holder.

I will now proceed to describe my invention with reference to theaccompanying drawings, and will then point out the novel features 111claims.

In the drawings: Figure 1 shows an elevation and partial section of mycombined vase and candle holder, and shows the same in use as a candleholder. Fig. 2 shows a top view of the said combined vase and candleholder. Fig. 3 tical section of the upper portion of the vase, and showstherein in central vertical section a candle socket. Fig. 4: shows aside elevation of the candle socket. Fig. 5 is a detail sectional viewillustrating an alternative support for the candle socket.

In the drawings, 1 designates the vase which, as customary, is a hollowbody. The particular configuration of this vase is of course immaterialto the present invention. At a suitable point in the interior of thisvase, I provide an inwardly projecting flange 2. I

3 designates a candle socket of hollow tubular form, preferably closedat the bottom as shown, and provided with a suitable Specification ofLetters Patent. I

shows a central ver Patented. sans, 1914.

number of legs 4 connected, preferably, be low the bottom of the socket3, to a ring5 adapted to rest upon the internal flange 2 of the vase andhaving, preferably, one or more bayonet slots 6 adapted to coact with apin or pins 7 projecting inward from the sides of the vase. Theconstruction is such, as'will be observed, that the flange 2'f0rms aseat for the base ring 5 of the candle socket 3;

but since the flange 2 projects inward a very short distance only, andsince the ring5 is entirely open, internally, and since the legs 4connecting the socket 3 and ring 5 arenarrow and spaced well apart, thevase 1' may beused as a flower vase evenwliile used also as a candleholder; for the stems of flowers and the like may be inserted into thevase through the openings between the legs 4: and through the openinterior of the ring 5.

Securing the ring bayonet joint or joints, as shown, is not an essentialfeature of my invention, but is convenient and desirable. When thecandle socket 8, with'its base ring 5, has been removed from the vase l,the latter is in efl'ect an ordinary vase and adaptable for use as anordinary vase.

As illustrated in Fig. 5, the vase 1 may be provided with a support forthe candle socket, consisting of a plurality of segmental projections 8,adapted to form supports for the base ring 5 in lieu of the continuousannularrfiange 2.

VVhatI claim is 1. A combined flower holder and candle holder comprisinga hollow body provided internally, at an intermediate point, with aflange projecting inwardly a short distance from the inner wall of saidhollow body, the said flange having a wide open center.

2. A combined flower holder and candle holder comprising a hollow bodyprovided internally, at an intermediate point, with a flange projectinginwardly a short distance from the inner wall of said hollow body, thesaid flange having a wide open center, combination with a candle sockethaving a base adapted to rest on said ange. x j 3. A combined flowerholder and candle holder comprising a hollow body provided internally,at an intermediate point,.with a flange projecting inwardly a shortdistance from the inner wall of said hollow body, the said flange havinga wide open center, in

combination with a candle socket having a 5 to the vase 1 by iio baseadapted to rest on said flange, and means for locking such candle socketand hollow body together.

4:. A combined flower holder and candle holder comprising a hollow bodyprovided internally, at an intermediate point, with a fiange projectinginwardly a short distance 5., A combined flower holder and candle holdercomprising a hollow body adapted to serve as a-iflower holder and acandle-sup porting member having a base adapted to fit,

withinsaid hollow body,-suchhollow body having a seat for said base, thesaid :candle holder, having openings for, the passage of flower stemsand the like.

6. A combined flower holder and candle holder comprising a hollow bodyadapted for use as a flower holder, and having internally, in its upperportion, a support for a candle holder, and a candle holder adapted torest on said support, said support provided with an opening for thepassage of flower stems and the like.

TJA candle holder such as described, comprising a tubular socket, aring-shaped base below such socket and having an opening through it,such base of larger diameter than the socket, and legs extendingupwardly and inwardly from said ring-base to and in connection with thesaid socket and uniting the base and socket, openings being providedbetween the legs.

7 In testimony whereof I have signed this specification in the presenceor" two subscribing witnesses.

GUSTAVE A. HENCKEL.

Witnesses: i i

H. M. MARBLE, PAUL H. FRANKE.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressingthe Commissioner of Patents,

1 Washington, D. G.

